The University of Nebraska will halt its decades-long tradition of releasing balloons at Huskers football games due to a helium shortage. On Monday, University of Nebraska athletic director Trev ...

Nebraska Athletic Director Trev Alberts announced that the tradition of releasing red balloons after the Huskers’ first touchdown will not continue in the 2022 football season. Alberts cited a global ...

One of the longest-standing traditions in college football won’t occur this fall. Since the 1940s, Nebraska fans at Memorial Stadium have released red balloons after the Huskers score their first ...

Clemson University said it is ending a traditional balloon launch at football games.The balloon launch was part of the football team's entrance by running down the hill.The university released the ...

The Nebraska football program is taking the air out of one of its biggest traditions. The team will not release balloons following its first touchdown at home -- something it has done since the 1960s ...

I really do understand the power of tradition, particularly at sporting events. Marching bands playing the school fight song, mascots engaging in midfield hijinks, face paint, fireworks — it all does ...

The Enshrinement Festival Balloon Classic, which traditionally attracts tens of thousands of people, will feature 43 hot air balloons -- including several with very special shapes like the pig, rocket ...

Fans may not be able to enter football stadiums this season because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that's not stopping NASA from sending a football-stadium-sized balloon to study the stars. NASA ...

Our next story takes us to the ice of Antarctica, where NASA scientists are launching gigantic balloons that will rise up way into the stratosphere, to near space. Some of these balloons are so big ...

When a balloon escapes into the sky, it has little chance of ever returning. Yet, somehow, a weather balloon launched by Purdue University’s Association of Mechanical & Electrical Technologists (AMET) ...